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The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indians

A narrative history of native Americans, this book describes their fight for lands on the edge of the ever-shrinking frontier of the West, and how they were betrayed time and again by the expanding white nation of the East.

Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 386 pages

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